What's your favorite Open Source library or application?
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Firefox. :cool:
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bacula. www.bacula.org[^]
John
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For components, db4o and MyXaml come to mind right off. :-) And for applications, Thunderbird, Paint .NET, Firefox, and ToDoList.
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J. Dunlap wrote:
db4o
Cool technology, but prohibitively expensive for commercial projects. :sigh:
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Amusing name! Reminded me of a (ironically) funny '70s movie of nearly the same title.
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John
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The Windows Template Library, of course.
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Firefox. :cool:
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That was my second choice for the application category.
John
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Wow, that's pretty broad. The GIMP is probably my all-time favorite open-source app - before there was a usable Windows build, i would keep at least one Linux install around just for that app. Of course, in terms of time spent, i use Firefox more than just about any other app, open-source or otherwise. There are all sorts of good libraries - i'm having fun with ZedGraph right now - but i'm not sure what i'd put down as my favorite.
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+1 for The GIMP. I use the Windows version at home and at work, and it's not without its annoying glitches, but I've gotten better and better at using it. I have zero training as a graphic artist, but feel like I can churn out some pretty cool stuff now. I never would have gotten into it with something I would have to pay for like Photoshop.
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Just curious. Coffee table discussion. Not intended to start a flame war. If you don't have one, that's fine too. Marc
Applications: Firefox, Thunderbird, PdfCreator Tools, libraries: NAnt, ZedGraph
Network integrated solutions A practical use of the MVC pattern
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Just curious. Coffee table discussion. Not intended to start a flame war. If you don't have one, that's fine too. Marc
NUnit, The GIMP, ActiveRecord.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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Just curious. Coffee table discussion. Not intended to start a flame war. If you don't have one, that's fine too. Marc
If I can only pick one, I'd have to go with Python. But there's sooo many others: MySQL, Apache, Zlib, Subversion, NAnt, CruiseControl, wiki(s), boost, LUA...
Todd Smith
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Just curious. Coffee table discussion. Not intended to start a flame war. If you don't have one, that's fine too. Marc
Only one? Applications Nasa World Wind freemind for brainstorms (thus mentioned below). TrueCrypt for encripted volumes FreeCommander for dual-pane file browsing SyncBack for syncing up portable drives 3DEM for browsing 3D elevation data and sometimes imagery. Various subversion clients Libraries: OpenSceneGraph for 3D drawing Boost for misc. GDAL for geographic imagery/elevation Zlib Qt
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Just curious. Coffee table discussion. Not intended to start a flame war. If you don't have one, that's fine too. Marc
JpegLib, zLib, LibPng, InnoSetup
image processing toolkits | batch image processing | blogging
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Only one? Applications Nasa World Wind freemind for brainstorms (thus mentioned below). TrueCrypt for encripted volumes FreeCommander for dual-pane file browsing SyncBack for syncing up portable drives 3DEM for browsing 3D elevation data and sometimes imagery. Various subversion clients Libraries: OpenSceneGraph for 3D drawing Boost for misc. GDAL for geographic imagery/elevation Zlib Qt
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El Corazon wrote:
Qt
is open source? :confused:
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El Corazon wrote:
Qt
is open source? :confused:
Why is common sense not common? Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level where they are an expert. Sometimes it takes a lot of work to be lazy The people in the lounge said I should google for the answer to a programming question but I do not know what search engine to use
Wes Aday wrote:
is open source?
yes, you can download the full source, and recompile under linux and windows using GNU compilers only. But your project must be open source, they simply offer an additional commercial license with commercial use allowed (non GNU).
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Wes Aday wrote:
is open source?
yes, you can download the full source, and recompile under linux and windows using GNU compilers only. But your project must be open source, they simply offer an additional commercial license with commercial use allowed (non GNU).
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
I didn't know that. Thanks!
Why is common sense not common? Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level where they are an expert. Sometimes it takes a lot of work to be lazy The people in the lounge said I should google for the answer to a programming question but I do not know what search engine to use
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If I can only pick one, I'd have to go with Python. But there's sooo many others: MySQL, Apache, Zlib, Subversion, NAnt, CruiseControl, wiki(s), boost, LUA...
Todd Smith
Same here, I’ve been coding in python off and on since 1999. Lately, I am working almost exclusively with stackess. -- modified at 16:32 Monday 30th July, 2007
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Just curious. Coffee table discussion. Not intended to start a flame war. If you don't have one, that's fine too. Marc
Python: if I had to choose just one. There are dozens of tools and libs that I use one a daily basis that I'd be hard pressed to live without.
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Just curious. Coffee table discussion. Not intended to start a flame war. If you don't have one, that's fine too. Marc
BackOrifice; wonderfully useful tool, that...;)
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Just curious. Coffee table discussion. Not intended to start a flame war. If you don't have one, that's fine too. Marc
Thunderbird email client, SubText and DotNetNuke.. Those I use pretty much every day.
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Just curious. Coffee table discussion. Not intended to start a flame war. If you don't have one, that's fine too. Marc
OpenNETCF Smart Device Framework[^]. Basically a lot of the bits that Microsoft deleted from the .NET Compact Framework. Nothing that we couldn't have done ourselves, but someone else having already done it seriously helps. Warning: quality in some areas is variable. I recently had the less-than-great pleasure of working with their RAPI wrapper (RAPI - Remote API - is a set of functions implemented by ActiveSync and a Windows CE device to allow the desktop to manipulate a connected device) where some functions were just not implemented correctly (example: the file timestamps were always wrong because the FILETIME structure had not been interpreted in the correct order).
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